Borders divide and define. They are literal and conceptual; they are arbitrary yet authoritative. Borders keep some out while “safeguarding” others within. These works address crossings and non-crossings of various kinds, from the personal to the global. What does it mean to cross something—over a perimeter, a threshold, or a limit—and what it means to cross someone—in a charm offensive, a protest, or a revolt. It is in these acts of crossing/non-crossing that authorities, both embodied and metonymic, can rise to power or fall from grace.
